Sentences with phrase «from targeted purposes»

Not exact matches

Goals can give your team a sense of purpose and achievement, but too much stress could derail them from reaching their targets.

I just knew that I wanted it gone and that single action of drawing a target around the bill caused a change in perspective for me, from one of hopelessness to one of purpose.»

This transposition of ends and means is often disastrous because methods, now geared to meeting the metric, are detached from customer purpose — so banks sell payment protection insurance to people who do not need it, or VW managers manipulate emissions readings to meet targets.

As this results from a once - off tax policy change, the Bank will abstract from this direct effect of the GST for the purposes of assessing inflation outcomes relative to the target.

Facebook and Zuckerberg are currently embroiled in the fallout from a scandal caused by newsthat data firm Cambridge Analytica used data on 50 million individuals that was harvested from a «personality prediction» app on Facebook for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

He was pointing out that atheists complain about this open expression of belief... and yet here are atheists openly expressing their belief (non-belief), and specifically targeting those who believe with the express purpose of drawing them away from their beliefs.

While companies and governments are concerned about being targets of digital infiltration, they have used these technologies to obtain extensive information from common citizens for crime and terrorism prevention or commercial purposes.

Financial assistance from state parties can happen, but tends to be uncommon and targeted for a specific purpose (e.g. getting all local parties onto a state election database).

Buffalo and Erie County Regional Development Corporation (RDC) was incorporated for the purpose of encouraging the expansion of existing companies in target areas of the County of Erie by establishing an Industrial Revolving Loan Fund from which RDC makes loans to individual companies.

There is the question of whether the primary purpose of a target is to motivate mitigation efforts or to minimize harm (whether from climate change, incurred mitigation costs, or geoengineered disasters).

The investigator is responsible for demonstrating a reliable scheme for identifying targeted ES cell clones by Southern analysis with 5» and 3» probes by providing results from pilot experiments for this purpose.

Working out takes an element of planning and organization, from warming up to choosing which muscles you intend to target and the most efficient exercise for the purpose.

You don't need to run out and buy a Louis Vuitton, but you also don't need to get it from Target (even though Target has super cute bags... just not for this purpose).

The performances range from terrible - on - purpose (Fiennes, Close, and Jason Isaacs, whose first line as Pucci's father --»... You let your grades go now, maybe you don't get into a top - tier school» — hastily but explicitly lampoons the genre's default father - son conflict, thus throwing The Chumscrubber's true target of ridicule (movies about the middle - class rather than the middle - class itself) into sharp relief) to oblivious (Camilla Belle).

In addition to suffering from the problems that all voucher bills have in common, this bill would also undermine the main purpose of Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is designed to target federal funds to public schools with high concentrations of poverty in order to provide additional educational services for these students.

A commonly stated purpose of teacher evaluations is targeted professional development to improve teacher effectiveness; however, a presentation from Linda Darling - Hammond (2010), education policy expert and professor of education at Stanford University, noted that well under half of all teachers receive continuous professional development, mentoring or coaching or engage in peer observation as a result of evaluation.

When targets are written about strategies (e.g. I can chunk words), they distract the learners from the more significant purpose and blur the final goal.

The purpose, then, of formative assessment is not just to determine proficiency on a learning target, but also to collect information from the students about their learning related to this target.

However, for the purposes of determining AYP via safe harbor for the year following the consolidation, the District of Columbia would recalculate the safe harbor targets based on the consolidated population (i.e., based on the previous year's assessment results for all students from the sending and receiving schools that constitute the population of the consolidated school).»

Learning targets differ from instructional objectives in both design and purpose.

Like cash from some secured loans, personal loans can generally be used for any purpose — according to data from LendingTree, MagnifyMoney's parent company, nearly 34 % of personal loans are intended for debt consolidation and just under 33 % are targeted toward credit card refinancing.

The first option for preventing damage from scratching is to direct the cat's behavior to an acceptable target — a scratching post designed for that purpose.

Adjustments - Timing shortened from being downed to rising, rising into a movement, mid-air quick recovery, jumping, dashing, moving (on ground or midair), attacking, or guarding - Awakening: Fixed bug where attacks at very close range came from unguardable angles; these can now be guarded - Dash Combo: Fixed bug where Tag Combos weren't counted for achievement purposes unless landed on a foe who was incapacitated by a Tag Combo - Brynhildr (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Ares (Summon Special Move 1): Removed hitbox between Ares and spear that appeared right after throwing a spear - Odin (melee mode, neutral melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Odin (melee mode, side melee attack): Boosted time between when Odin begins swinging his blade and when hitbox appears - Grim Reaper (Special Move 2): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time for zombies when targeting foes as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Grim Reaper (Down + Special Move 2): Fixed bug where dog zombies occasionally didn't face the correct direction while moving - Grim Reaper (Awakened, Character Ability Power) Added fire effect to characters who take damage after being hit by a zombie ball when Grim Reaper is in fire zombie ball mode - Ra (bomb mode, Special Move 1): Bombs can now be destroyed by enemy attack - Ra (ranged / bomb mode, Special Move 1): Changed reload when out of ammo to constant reload - Slayer (Melee Attack, Down + Melee Attack branch): Reduced freeze time upon landing on the ground - Slayer (upper Melee Attack): Reduced movement speed when pursuing foes - Slayer: Reduced turning radius when moving to attack - Loki (Special Move 1): Fixed bug so Grim Reaper's Special Move 1 zombies, Ra's Special Move 1 bombs, etc. are now drawn in - Loki (Awakened): Boosted movement speed, turning radius, and max movement time when targeting foes with melee attacks as long as the Awakening gauge isn't empty - Loki (Special Move 2): Fixed move so that Loki isn't motionless while charging.

While Japan's reneging last week on its Copenhagen targets was damaging, and the signals from Australia deeply troubling, those of us that are actually serious about tackling climate change must forge ahead with purpose.

According to internal strategy papers I obtained at the time, the purpose of the campaign was «to reposition global warming as theory (not fact),» with an emphasis on targeting «older, less educated males,» and «younger, low - income women» in districts that received their electricity from coal, and who preferably had a representative on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Mine is harsher than Hansen's in order to minimize the risk of straying too far from the 1 C target, and for this purpose I emphasize the need for the harshest front end demand reduction.

For all practical purposes, targeting 3 C may be little different from targeting 5 C or 6 C.

Thanks, that 4343 note (April 24, 2003) from tranche II is spot on, perhaps the «seminal» note by Schneider, eliciting a targeted response (to Soon / Bial), for nakedly political purposes.

It highlighted that Article 15 (1) does not prevent a Member State from introducing legislation that would facilitate targeted retention of traffic and location data for the preventive purpose of fighting serious crime.

To have a lawsuit dismissed, a target of a SLAPP suit must prove on the balance of probabilities that a suit was filed for a malicious purpose such as to silence a person on a matter of public concern or to stop them from demonstrating.

[vii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics offering advice, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, and court procedures simplification projects, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[6] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types; self - help webpages; phone - in services; paralegal and law student programs; family mediation services; social justice tribunals; and court procedures simplification projects; arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution; public legal education information services; programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide the whole legal service); pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases; and, the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be better litigants without lawyers.

[iii] Alternative legal services (ALSs) are, for example: clinics of various types, self - help webpages, phone - in services, paralegal and law student programs, family mediation services, social justice tribunals, court procedures simplification projects, arbitration and mediation for dispute resolution, public legal education information services, programs for targeted (unbundled) limited retainer legal services (as distinguished from a full retainer to provide all of the legal services necessary), pro bono (free) legal services for short and simple cases, and the National Self - Represented Litigants Project, the purpose of which is to help self - represented litigants to be more effective self - represented litigants.

According to the post, University of Cambridge professor Aleksandr Kogan passed data obtained from a «personality prediction» app (thisisyourdigitallife) to Cambridge Analytica and others for political targeting purposes during the 2016 election campaign.

Still, the Times / Observer story showed that while Kogan had Facebook's OK to use this information for «academic purposes,» the revelation that it was indeed handed to Cambridge Analytica and used for election targeting purposes caused Facebook to ban CA, its parent company SCL, Kogan, and somewhat oddly, whistleblower Wylie, from the site.

Patent trolls and profiteers - those that use their patent ownership for the sole purpose of demanding payment from operating companies - have ramped up their activities in recent years, expanding their targets beyond technology companies to include small businesses, retailers and grocers, financial institutions, hospitals and pharmacies, car dealers, real estate agents and thousands of other businesses.

To recap: Facebook has admitted that political research firm Cambridge Analytica, linked to both President Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and the Brexit leave vote, improperly obtained data from as many as 87 million Facebook users for ad targeting purposes.

The committee recently took evidence from Cambridge Analytica — the UK based company credited with helping Donald Trump win the US presidency by creating psychological profiles of US voters for ad targeting purposes.

Consider this, if you were planning on buying shoes and you go to a store, the least you can expect from the shop is that they would show you a variety of shoes that are usually targeted for different purposes.

For the purpose of indexing intrusive memories of the stimuli presented in this experiment, we used selected items from the Intrusion subscale that directly pertained to the occurrence of unwanted memories of the target event (e.g «Pictures about it popped into mind»).